{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0090.tlg001.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0090.tlg001.local002","title":"Geographiae Informatio","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Agathemerus","authorityName":"AGATHEMERUS Geogr.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0090-agathemerus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0090-agathemerus/","editors":["Jacobus Gronovius"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Geographica Antiqua","edition":null,"publisher":"Ludguni Batavorum","place":null,"date":"1697","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":[],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2016 - 2018","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig), 2015 - 2017","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig), 2015 - 2017","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/geographicaanti00tenngoog","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Agathemerus. Geographiae Informatio. ed. Jacobus Gronovius. Geographica Antiqua, Ludguni Batavorum, 1697. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0090.tlg001.local002","excerpt":"Περὶ τ ῆς τ ῶν παλαιῶν γεωγραφίας. Κεφ άλαιον αʹ. Ἀναξίμανδρος ὁ Μιλήσιος, ἀκουστὴς Θάλεω, πρῶτος ἐτόλμησε τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐν πίνακι γράψαι. Μεθ᾿ ὃν Ἑκαταῖος ὁ Μιλήσιος, ἀνὴρ πολυπλανὴς, διηκρίβωσεν, ὥστε θαυμασθῆναι τὸ πρᾶγμα. Ἑλλάνικος γὰρ Λέσβιος ἀνὴρ πολυΐστωρ ἀπλάστως παρέδωκε τὴν ἱστορίαν. Εἶτα Εἶτα Δαμάστης ὁ Κιττιεὺς τὰ πλεῖστα ἐκ τῶν Ἑκαταίου μεταγράψας περίπλουν ἔγραψεν. Ἑξῆς Δημόκριτος καὶ Εὔδοξος καὶ ἄλλοι τινὲς τῆς γῆς περιόδους καὶ περίπλους ἐπραγματεύσαντο. Οἱ μὲν οὖν παλαιοὶ τὴν οἰκουμένην ἔγραφον στρογγύλην, μέσην διηγεῖσθαι τὴν Ἑλλάδα, καὶ ταύτης Δελφοὐς, τὸν ὄμφα λον λὸν γὰρ ἔχειν τῆς γῆς. Πρῶτος δὲ Δημόκριτος πολύπειρος ἀνὴρ συνεῖδεν, ὅτι προμήκης ἐστὶν ἡ γῆ, ἡμιόλιον τὸ μῆκος τοῦ πλάτους ἔχουσα. Συνῄνεσε τούτῳ καὶ Δικαίαρχος ὁ Περιπατητικός. Εὔδοξος δὲ τὸ μῆκος διπλοῦν τοῦ πλάτους· ὁ δὲ Ἐρατοσθένης πλεῖον τοῦ διπλοῦ. Κράτης δὲ ὡς ἡμικύκλιον· Ἵπ πα παρχος δὲ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local002/#tlg0090-tlg001-local002-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local002/#tlg0090-tlg001-local002-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local002/#tlg0090-tlg001-local002-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local002/#tlg0090-tlg001-local002-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local002/#tlg0090-tlg001-local002-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0090.tlg001.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0090/tlg001/local002.json.gz"}}